The Psychology of Trumpism

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Politics explains what's happening. Psychology explains why it works.

You can follow every vote, read every bill, and still be stuck on the questions that actually keep people up at night. Why do obvious falsehoods stick? Why do people defend things they'd have called indefensible ten years ago? Why does fact-checking so rarely change a mind, and why does arguing about it leave you feeling like the crazy one?

Those aren't political questions. They're questions about how human brains handle fear, loyalty, shame, and repetition.

This hub is a collection of explainers on the psychological machinery behind Trumpism. Projection. Gaslighting. Malignant narcissism. Cognitive dissonance. The illusory truth effect. Logical fallacies. Each explainer defines the term in plain English, shows what it looks like in practice with sourced examples, and explains why it's effective on people who are paying attention.

This isn't only about one man. These are techniques, and they can be used on you, on your neighbors, and sometimes on entire countries.

They are also a lot less effective on people who know what they are and how they work. That's the whole point of this collection — educate Americans on how the Trump administration uses psychology to control us, and the mental health issues Trump himself suffers from.

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